>>56
I'm
>>53. That's also my first post to this thread in several days. No, I'm not the other guy.
I'm simply pointing out an observation I've made from reading several mailing lists and forums. As you get older you begin to recognize the signs of a weak argument, because you've seen them many times before. The last line of
>>52 was argument suicide; you should have resisted the urge for such an obvious juvenile jab. It's held that ad hominem attacks are a bad idea, and for good reason.
By the way, you realize that this is a situation you could educate your opponent? Discourse is a more effective way to educate people than a book. Instead of saying "go look it up on teh intarweb!" (also argument suicide), you should explain why they're wrong (great, you know your stuff!), or provide respectable links (so/so).
By the way, if you provide links, make sure you actually read the links first, not just skim. You'd be amazed how many people cut their own throats by dropping links (or footnotes, haha!) which they didn't read or don't understand.